By: Lucio S.B. No. 2016
(In the Senate - Filed March 25, 2015; March 30, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; May 18, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 18, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to limitations on annexation by and extraterritorial
jurisdiction of certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.023, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 42.023. REDUCTION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.
The extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality may not be
reduced unless the governing body of the municipality gives its
written consent by ordinance or resolution, except:
(1) in cases of judicial apportionment of overlapping
extraterritorial jurisdictions under Section 42.901; [or]
(2) in accordance with an agreement under Section
42.022(d); or
(3) as necessary to comply with Section 42.0235.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Local Government Code,
is amended by adding Section 42.0235 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.0235. LIMITATION ON EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION
OF CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) Notwithstanding Section 42.021,
the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality in a county
that contains an international border and borders the Gulf of
Mexico terminates two miles from the extraterritorial jurisdiction
of a neighboring municipality if extension of the extraterritorial
jurisdiction beyond that limit would:
(1) completely surround the corporate boundaries or
extraterritorial jurisdiction of the neighboring municipality; and
(2) limit the growth of the neighboring municipality
by precluding the expansion of the neighboring municipality's
extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(b) A municipality shall release extraterritorial
jurisdiction as necessary to comply with Subsection (a).
SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
is amended by adding Section 43.037 to read as follows:
Sec. 43.037. PROHIBITION AGAINST ANNEXATION TO SURROUND
MUNICIPALITY IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. A municipality in a county that
contains an international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico may
not annex an area that would cause another municipality to be
entirely surrounded by the corporate limits or extraterritorial
jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by Section 43.037, Local
Government Code, as added by this Act, applies to any annexation,
including an annexation proposed in an annexation plan under
Section 43.052, Local Government Code, that is not final before the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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